Maternal and Child Health News

December 10, 2012 Fifteen physicians affiliated with Gillings School of Global Public Health at The University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill are listed in the latest compilation of The Best Doctors in America® database. Dr. Myron Cohen Dr. Alison Stuebe Dr. John Thorp Dr. Anthony Viera They include epidemiology professor Myron Cohen,… Read more »

November 15, 2012 Gillings School of Global Public Health at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been awarded $900,000 by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to evaluate First Foods, the foundation’s national breastfeeding initiative. The First Foods program aims to “give children a healthy start” by ensuring more babies receive breast milk as… Read more »

November 05, 2012 Two maternal and child health faculty members at Gillings School of Global Public Health, authors of a paper published in the June 2011 American Journal of Public Health (AJPH), received the journal’s ‘Paper of the Year’ award at the annual American Public Health Association awards ceremony on Oct. 30, 2012, in… Read more »

October 22, 2012 Boys in the United States appear to be entering puberty much earlier than in the past – a trend researchers caution may have important medical, psychosocial, public health and environmental implications, according to a new study released at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans and published… Read more »

September 20, 2012 Jacqueline (Jackie) Quirk, RN, BSN, CCHC, project coordinator for the North Carolina Child Care Health and Safety Resource Center, has received a lifetime achievement award from the North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation. The resource center, based in Raleigh, is a project of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Department… Read more »

September 10, 2012 Twelve students at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health have been designated as 2012-2013 Gillings Merit Scholars. The scholarships, established in 2010 to help the School recruit graduate students with exceptional promise and potential, are made possible through a $50 million gift to the School from Dennis Gillings and Joan… Read more »

Top 10 in 2012: The year’s most-read news stories January 02, 2013 One of the most-read news articles on the Gillings School of Global Public Health website in 2012 was accompanied by a photograph of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shaking the hand of a Gillings faculty member. The faculty member in the… Read more »

August 02, 2012 Dr. Richard Udry J. Richard Udry, PhD, professor of maternal and child health and sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, died at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Sunday, July 29, after a long illness. He was 83. Dr. Udry was a Kenan Distinguished Professor of… Read more »

July 11, 2012 Dr. Adam Zolotor Adam Zolotor, MD, MPH, DrPH, assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina’s School of Medicine, has been selected as the new vice president of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine (NCIOM). Zolotor earned a Master of Public Health (1997) and… Read more »

Did you get your flu shot today at #UNC #Gillings? Dean Barbara Rimer did. Next flu shot clinic here will be Oct. 18, but there will be flu shot clinics all around campus before then. Be safe, be smart! Get vaccinated!View on Facebook

Flu shot day, #UNC #Gillings! 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the lower level of the Atrium. Must have: Insurance Card, Photo I.D., and at least one willing vein. We know this is important because we do public health!View on Facebook

There was a bubble-wrap stress relief physical activity in the #UNC #Gillings Atrium at lunch today. People owned it!View on Facebook